ELEC 6261
Optical Devices for High-Speed Communications
Fall 2015
Topics
- Wave optics
- Fresnel equations
- Diffraction gratings
- Optical fibers
- Optical losses and couplers
- LEDs and lasers
- Photodetectors and image sensors
- Polarization
- Optical modulation
Readings
- John M. Senior, Optical Fiber Communications, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall.
- Amnon Yariv and Pochi Yeh, Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, 6th ed., Oxford University Press.
- Shun L. Chuang, Physics of Photonic Devices, 2nd ed., Wiley.
- Selected class notes and laboratory manual.
- Optoelectronics resources: http://www.epanorama.net/links/opto.html
- Listed textbook; requirement not explicitly stated: S.O. Kasap, Optoelectronics & Photonics, 2nd ed., Pearson, ISBN 978-0132151498.
Not stated
Topics
- Optical properties of semiconductors
- Optical fibres and optical component interactions
- Lasers and LEDs
- Photodetectors and optical switches
- Wavelength-division and dense wavelength-division multiplexing
- Noise and distortion in optical communications
- Light polarization, modulation, and attenuation
Readings
- Listed textbook; requirement not explicitly stated: Safa O. Kasap, Optoelectronics and Photonics: Principles and Practices, 2nd edition, Pearson Canada, 2013.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Fall 2015
- Official course page ↗Not stated
- Official eConcordia detail page; the page says not currently offered at the time of retrieval. No teaching term or year is stated. The bibliography appears under Book without an explicit required/recommended designation. The collection also retains a dated 2015 instructor outline for these courses; this public detail page is undated.